Turkish troops have killed two Kurdish rebels in a village in southeast Turkey where the guerrillas had come looking for food, a security official said on Thursday. Turkish paramilitary police entered the village of Oymakli in Siirt province late on Wednesday after a tip-off that PKK rebels had come to the village seeking food. Two rebels were killed in the ensuing gun battle, the official told Reuters. Elsewhere in eastern Turkey, the Turkish military pressed on with an operation involving some 8,000 to 10,000 troops backed by helicopters against PKK rebels in the mountainous province of Tunceli.
